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. 2014 Aug;14(4):338-41.
doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-4-338.

Decision time for clinical decision support systems

Dympna O'Sullivan  1 , Paolo Fraccaro  2 , Ewart Carson  2 , Peter Weller  2
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Decision time for clinical decision support systems

Dympna O'Sullivan et al. Clin Med (Lond). 2014 Aug.

Abstract

Clinical decision support systems are interactive software systems designed to help clinicians with decision-making tasks, such as determining a diagnosis or recommending a treatment for a patient. Clinical decision support systems are a widely researched topic in the computer science community, but their inner workings are less well understood by, and known to, clinicians. This article provides a brief explanation of clinical decision support systems and some examples of real-world systems. It also describes some of the challenges to implementing these systems in clinical environments and posits some reasons for the limited adoption of decision-support systems in practice. It aims to engage clinicians in the development of decision support systems that can meaningfully help with their decision-making tasks and to open a discussion about the future of automated clinical decision support as a part of healthcare delivery.

Keywords: Clinical decision support systems; decision-making; diagnosis.

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